Shadow Government Page #4

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behaviour I can see things

about the kind of person you might be, the

kind of lifestyle might live.

Your spending habits do you tend to spend

a lot at the beginning the

year, do you spend monthly, at the beginning

of the month or at the end.

Many young people barely know what cash looks

like they use credit cards for

anything, many of us too I shouldn't say young

people it's true for me as well.

I use credit cards for everything because

there are incentives to do it but they

are great data collection tools, we give up

lots of information about ourselves.

There is the only anonymous way to conduct

any kind of business

though the problem with cash is it's rapidly

becoming an

anachronism and if you don't think so take

ten thousand dollars

and go and try and put it down in cash on

a new car...

By the time you get the paper signed you'll

be sent two FBI agents wanting to

know where the ten thousand dollars came from

because if you transfer more

than ten thousand dollars it can be a crime

Now, that means that now cash is

not anonymous except in smaller amounts and

how small is a smaller amount?

You know their are things that you can buy

for

twenty dollars and thirty dollars but if you

go

any higher than that you know if you bring

a

hundred-dollar bills most stores won't take

them.

There is a desire by several forces coming

together who do want to add

a biometric identifier to government identification

so the leading

push in the United States is most likely a

biometric added to your

driver's license the biometric is most likely

going to be a fingerprint.

Under that model the fingerprint becomes your

new social security number.

So what does that mean I'm touching this chair

I'm

touching the table I'm leaving my fingerprints

behind, you

come along with a piece of tape and dust see

you pick up

my print you stuck it on a fake ID and now

you're me.

Right?

There's proof by this phoney fingerprint that

you've just lifted up.

Right?

And then if things get really bad with your

identity theft and social security numbers

you can

actually get a new social security number

but

what do I do about getting new fingerprints.

I'm always forgetting my wallet and then I

can't find and

I don't know where it is and the idea that

maybe someone

could put an RFID chip somewhere where I would

just

have to wave my arm it's a very attractive

proposition.

There are plenty of reasons to be worried

about a cashless society where we have

microchips implanted in her hands and simply

make our payments in that way.

For one thing you would be unable to ever

make a payment or to make a

purchase that someone wasn't watching and

recording you in a database.

Marketers would like to get a hold of that,

hackers can hack in to that and then

government could use it to investigate you

or try to control your behaviour.

Nobody ever reads those disclosure requirements.

No one, no one.

No one, no one, no one.

Every year I teach this material at Harvard

I ask

my big class you know, who has a Facebook

account?

And every hand goes up and then I said: How

many of you read the thing, you know

what you were agreeing to before you click

the I agree button on your Facebook?

And I never ever get a a single answer and

these are Harvard students if anybody

is going to read the fine print you would

hope it's going to be Harvard

students they don't nobody does so a lot of

the time even when there are protections

about the sharing of data we really had no

awareness of how far they go.

Data can be shared between commercial business

partners and there is sharing

that also happens between government agencies

and the private sector.

But I think even more serious is if a purchase

requires

that kind of a hand stamp then if you become

a non-person

for whatever reason someone decides they don't

like

your political views, they don't like the

actors and

they like the fact that you campaign against

the current

president in the last election cycle then

you go to

press your hand to the reader and it says

rejected sorry

you don't count we won't allow you to participate.

Hitler actually did that back in the early

part of his era of terror and control of

Germ any it actually determined certain things

that the Jews weren't allowed to do.

Set certain streets that they couldn't walk

that they weren't allowed to

enter and even set certain restrictions on

what they could buy at the store.

Understanding how money works and how the

only real way we have right now

of hurting them is through money which is

one of the reasons there trying

to create a cashless society because as long

as you and I have cash and can

eat and as long as we can eat we're free at

least we can defend ourselves

when you take the cash away and you create

credit cards and create

microchips what your doing is, suddenly, you

know we are at the whim of the

powerful people they can punish us by pressing

delete three times on a

computer screens and suddenly ten thousand

dollars turns into ten dollars.

One of the most important developments in

this privacy

area that's come with the digital revolution

is that

Orwell's picture of loss of privacy, the government

watching us, the surveillance cameras everywhere...

Certainly is true to some degree there are

surveillance cameras everywhere.

That's hilarious where did you get all this

stuff.

- I don't know how I lived before Youtube.

What do you just search all day?

- No Painful and stupid is easy to find...

Useful and factual take a while.

Employers, law enforcement agencies, stores

insurance and credit companies,

hospitals and the government would all argue

that their surveillance is necessary.

They'd also all state that individual surveillance

and data systems are

non-invasive and pose no threat of creating

personal profiles or a data shadow.

Simply stated one source of surveillance at

one location on one part of a person's

life is not a real concern but if all this

discarded information is gathered

and sorted and filed in a central location

it would create a complete and

detailed profile much more invasive than anything

even a police check could get.

The infringement on individual's personal

freedoms and the possibilities

for abuse would rival George Orwell's Big

Brother government.

You go through your life almost most of the

time some computer somewhere

is recording something about you and so if

you think about it it's just

tons of information on each of us and then

there's certain efforts of

some kinds of data that are put together to

build profiles and so forth.

So this is a lot of data, this is a huge explosion

of data being collected on individuals.

One other thing that people often say is you

know well, you know, who's going

to be watching me all day long who has the

resources or the time to watch

me and the answer is really no one is going

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